Re: [RFC] Deprecate left-associative ternary operator

On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 5:54 AM Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote: > > Inspired by Bob's recent RFC for concat precedence, I'd like to propose a > deprecation and removal of the left-associative behavior of ternaries. > Instead, explicit parentheses should be used: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ternary_associativity > > This RFC makes nested ternaries without disambiguating parentheses an error > in PHP 8 -- we might want to consider making them right-associative > instead, which is both useful and matches the behavior of other languages. > I'd support mandatory disambiguation, though I feel we should go all in and introduce a ternary with right associativity. See also Bug 61915[1], which suggests leaving ? left and introducing ?? for right. Personally I don't see any benefit to keeping a ternary with left associativity. [1]: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61915